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Yo! They can't stop us all!
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Can't stop us all!
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I don't even know why we're here.
What are we doing?
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I am freaked the crap out.
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Dude, I wanna see them aliens!
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All right, now the final countdown is on.
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Thousands on their way
to the Nevada Desert…
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…to storm Area 51.
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There are loads of cars here,
you guys. Loads of cars.
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It's the middle of the night,
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and we're heading out
to the middle of nowhere.
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I'm in a van with, like, eight strangers,
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and I'm on my way
to, like, fucking goddamn Area 51.
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I'm the most fucking terrified
I've ever been in my goddamn life.
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We're about to storm
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one of the most heavily guarded
military bases in the world.
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Our quest continues on foot.
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Why? Because the internet told us to.
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It's a Facebook event
that started as a joke, but now very real.
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Tell us the truth!
Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth…
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Within 30 minutes,
there'll be two million people here.
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-Really?
-Yeah.
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Oh, okay. Sick.
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-You planning on raiding it?
-Oh, absolutely.
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Why I got night vision.
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This is dangerous.
This is a military base. It is guarded.
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I repeat.
Anybody breaching Area 51 will be shot.
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Yeah, like, I'm legitimately--
we're concerned for our safety.
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3.5 million people have signed up
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to invade the base in search of UFOs.
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Tell us the truth!
Tell us the truth! Tell us…
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We're here to rescue the aliens!
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Who's behind this?
Some government disinformation plot?
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Is it the Chinese?
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Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth…
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There's so many crazy people
on the internet.
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There's people who do crazy things.
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There's just no way to know
whether this is gonna be some dumb joke
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or one of the bloodiest massacres
in American history.
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Line up!
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How did it come to this?
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-Tell us the truth…
-Three, two, one!
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We're really asking,
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is anyone actually gonna be dumb enough
to storm Area 51?
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Today is two-for-one
on all Christmas cards.
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Get them early, make a statement.
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Malls are dead nowadays.
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The only reason to go to the mall
is because you work there.
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In 2019, I was 20 years old.
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I guess I just looked like
some loser at the vape kiosk.
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That day, I'm bored to tears.
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I'm just sitting there browsing YouTube.
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They turned the friggin' frogs gay!
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How dare you!
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What is the charge?
Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
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And I stumble upon this podcast.
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Get your hand off my penis!
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Two, one, boom. And we're live.
For people who don't know the story,
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you used to work at Area 51.
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It's these guys talking
about this top-secret government base.
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There's this facility
that is in the side of a mountain.
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The first inkling I had,
there were hangar doors open.
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And in the hangar was the disc.
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All these underground bunkers
and fascinating technology.
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They had nine craft altogether.
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I thought, "Oh, my God, this finally
explains all the flying saucer stories."
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It's a wild story. It-- it's fucking nuts.
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But it just gets filed
into the back of my mind.
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My shift ends and went home.
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My happy place.
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I have this shitposting account
on Facebook.
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It's great because nobody knows
who you are.
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You can post just like
a digital diary of stupid shit.
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-Oh! Oh!
-Memes.
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Random thoughts that came to mind.
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Funny zingy one-liners.
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And it's called
"Shitposting 'cause I'm in shambles."
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That night, I can't sleep.
My mind's kind of going.
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What is the charge?
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When the mind runs free, it can
be a powerful thing or a very dumb thing.
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Frogs gay!
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A succulent Chinese meal!
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Help me!
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And then it comes to me.
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The ultimate shitpost.
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This top-secret military base.
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-Area 51… 51.
-Area 51… 51.
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If the government
won't tell us anything about it, what if…
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…every fool on the internet
converged on Area 51?
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What would they do? Shoot everyone?
Just seemed like a hilarious idea to me.
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Jokes are funnier when they're edgy,
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so I'd make it sound like
a real call to arms.
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I just thought it would be a funny post
for my page of 40 followers.
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I didn't think it'd go anywhere.
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Wake up the next morning.
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I scroll back through the page.
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Check on and see how things are doing.
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And I was like, "What the fuck?!"
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This is just fucking crazy.
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Storm Area 51. Now that's a real cause.
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In, like, a three-day span,
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there's just all these different people
from all walks of life
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that have tagged themselves as going.
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I'm just an adrenaline junkie.
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"There's gonna be
a lot of adrenaline at this event."
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Like…
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It's kind of facts.
Like, everybody went crazy.
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It was just so many different types
of people coming together.
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You want "sexy alien"?
I've got sexy alien.
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Take my Earth virginity.
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Area 69.
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I'm a soul that normally lives
in another dimension, in another realm.
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I'm from Adelaide, South Australia, and I
was wanting to see some chaos, I think.
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Don't ask me why I'm in my bra.
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It's a really long story
and several margaritas later.
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"They can't stop us all." I was like,
"Hell yeah, they can't stop us all."
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Love the smell of dead alien
in the morning.
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I'll do anything.
You gotta let us know what's in there.
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I gotta go. I have to go.
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This is going to be in the history books,
and I wanna be there for it.
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It was unbelievable.
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And it was a moment
of excitement and panic,
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just seeing the sheer
amount of people that have,
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for some reason, signed up for this event.
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I figured I have to tell my mom,
give the poor lady a heart attack.
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I don't do Facebook,
so I don't really understand it.
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We were just up around the house.
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And he came into the kitchen,
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and he's like,
"You're not gonna believe this,"
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and showed me this event.
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Ten thousand people.
That's a lot of bodies.
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I honestly didn't really know much
about Area 51.
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I looked it up to see what it was.
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Built in 1955,
yet there is no official documentation.
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The US military's most secretive base.
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This is a secret military base,
and you told people to go and break in?
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Guards are authorized
to arrest anyone who crosses.
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Get down!
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Use of deadly force is authorized.
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Police shot and killed a man
who entered the federal site
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where the government
used to test nuclear bombs.
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Oh, Matthew. What'd you do?
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People might not understand
that it's a joke.
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You could get in a lot of trouble,
you know?
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Maybe you should back up a little bit.
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I told her the event itself is hosted
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by a page called
"Shitposting 'cause I'm in shambles."
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Like, it's in the name that it is a joke.
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But I said, "Okay, Mom.
Don't worry about it. I'll solve it."
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So I added a line to the description
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saying that if we Naruto run,
we can move faster than their bullets.
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It's a run from anime.
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I was just trying
to help calm things down,
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but the whole thing exploded even more.
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Naruto run, Naruto run to Area 51
Too fast!
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Naruto run, Naruto run to Area 51
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This has gone absolutely nuts!
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So let me show you what's going on here.
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Before you know it,
it's top trending on TikTok, Instagram.
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And suddenly, the event page
is flooded with all kinds of memes.
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Everybody's competing for clicks.
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Trust
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Oh, my God, these are great.
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This one guy had just gone
absolutely crazy in Microsoft Paint
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and made a battle plan.
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Oh, the attack plan.
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You've got all these different tribes.
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Kyles. Kyles being the first wave.
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What's up, ET? You want some?
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Fuck you, Dad!
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They're the bulky guys, right?
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Uh, we've got anti-vax kids.
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My body, my choice! My body, my choice!
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And then of course,
we've gotta send in some Karens.
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How dare you!
I've been waiting in line for 15 minutes!
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Why were the Karens gonna be there?
What were the Karens gonna do?
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Um, they just wanna speak to the manager.
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The Karens.
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Yeah, that looks like
a pretty well-thought-out plan.
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There might be some ex-military
personnel behind, uh, this plan.
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Oh, my God, it was completely
the internet eating itself.
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Now I'm suddenly this renegade guy
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that's got this group of people
where everything I say is funny.
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It was just batshit crazy.
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I had no idea what I'd started.
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We know we can't just walk up
to Area 51 alone,
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but what if people actually show up?
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What's the government gonna do to stop us?
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And if they do,
what are they trying to hide?
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I'm gonna ask people
to see what they think.
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It was weird. All of a sudden,
everybody was talking about aliens.
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Back then, I was doing short-form content
for Vice Media,
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and I was working
with this comedian named Dee.
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And we thought, "Wouldn't it be fun to do
something on this Storm Area 51 thing?"
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Aliens are real as fuck.
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-Would you date an alien?
-Yes!
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Put a microphone
in somebody's face and be like,
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"Hey, I'm talking to you
about something weird."
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If there are aliens, do you think
they're more advanced than we are?
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Probably dumb as fuck
'cause we dumb as fuck too.
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-Do you have a message for them?
-Uh, do you guys have weed?
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I couldn't believe there was
all this language and culture
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that was built around this Facebook event.
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You ready for Area 51? Whoo!
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Naruto. Naruto.
How the fuck do you say that?
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Aliens are awesome,
and people are obsessed.
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There was something
unique about this story,
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so I had to stay on it.
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The almost ingenious thing about this is,
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unlike other memes, which have their…
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…flash in the pan,
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this one has an event.
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We're gonna meet there in 72 days.
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It becomes this ticking time bomb,
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where momentum is gonna just
continue to build until that event.
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More people are gonna get swept up
into this tornado of a meme.
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Everyone's just wondering to themselves,
like, "How is this going to play out?"
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Because 500,000 people have signed up
to storm Area 51.
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If they did,
could the government stop them?
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That was our stakes, right?
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The military are authorized
to use deadly force.
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This is an internet craze
where people could really get killed.
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It just was like, "Oh, my God,
what's gonna happen?"
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I thought,
"For God's sake, this is just a joke."
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Nobody's actually planning on going there.
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I mean, where the hell even is Area 51?
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We're the only place on the highway.
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The only bathroom.
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The only ones in all of this space.
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We have a restaurant,
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camping space…
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and ten rooms. That's it.
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July 11th, our phone started ringing.
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Somebody wanted to rent a camping spot.
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As soon as I hung up with that person…
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…the phone was ringing again.
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Can you hold on?
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Any time we hung up the phone…
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…it was ringing. It was insane.
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Everybody was wanting to come,
you know, like, the 20th of September.
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I thought, "What is going on?"
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I ain't got time for that shit.
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We have ten rooms.
That's it. You can only book ten rooms.
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Within 24 hours,
we had booked 500 camping spots.
245
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I had no idea what was going on
246
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until a little boy came in and said,
247
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"Ma'am, this guy made this meme."
248
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"Here, look."
249
00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,293
And I'm looking at it and I'm like,
"This is stupid."
250
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"Who-- who in their right mind
251
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is gonna try
to cross the boundaries at Area 51?"
252
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You know, "They're gonna die."
253
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You cross the boundary of Area 51,
254
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you might get shot
or gonna picked up by me.
255
00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:50,778
I was raised here in Lincoln County.
256
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Been here pretty much my entire life.
257
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You thought you'd get rid of me.
See, you can't.
258
00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:59,078
-You're like a bad penny.
-I know.
259
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You discuss with other sheriffs.
260
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They're like, "Area 51?
That's in your county?"
261
00:18:03,665 --> 00:18:05,167
"Yeah, that's in our county."
262
00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:09,171
I've got every alien hunter
from across the globe that wants to come.
263
00:18:10,547 --> 00:18:12,424
So when my friend texted me and said,
264
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"Hey, have you--
have you seen this, uh, post?"
265
00:18:15,385 --> 00:18:17,721
I thought, "Oh, boy. Here we go again."
266
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"Another one of those wacko things
that-- that people say,
267
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and it never really happens."
268
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I didn't really know what a meme was.
269
00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:30,651
I didn't know what the potential
of that meme could be.
270
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It wasn't till the days progressed
271
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and-- and things started
getting bigger and bigger,
272
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I thought, "Oh,
this isn't just funny anymore."
273
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We have less than 12 officers,
including the sheriff,
274
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um, to police
an 11,000 square-mile county.
275
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We're designed to police
5,000 or 6,000 people.
276
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Yeah, if a tourist gets into trouble,
we can run an officer out there.
277
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But once you start talking
about multiple people,
278
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even a group of more than a dozen,
279
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you're-- you're talking about a big deal.
280
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And then so when you're talking
281
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about the scale
that this Storm Area 51 was at,
282
00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,243
then you really get scared.
283
00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,918
In viral news…
284
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for decades, Americans have wanted to know
285
00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:37,843
what secrets are contained
within the walls of Area 51.
286
00:19:37,926 --> 00:19:40,387
Now the nation's morons have had enough,
287
00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:42,890
and they're going to find out
for themselves.
288
00:19:44,099 --> 00:19:47,603
It's like the hype never stopped.
It just got bigger and bigger and bigger.
289
00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:50,522
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users
290
00:19:50,606 --> 00:19:51,940
are signing up all the time…
291
00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:56,403
…exploded into a worldwide phenomenon,
and it's growing bigger by the hour.
292
00:19:56,486 --> 00:20:00,532
And of course, at that point,
the mainstream media jumped in hard too.
293
00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:03,744
It's interesting how fast
the whole thing has taken off.
294
00:20:03,827 --> 00:20:06,496
"Storm Area 51,
they can't stop all of us."
295
00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:10,250
Maybe not, but they can stop some of you.
296
00:20:10,334 --> 00:20:14,421
All of a sudden, this is so mainstream
that Miley Cyrus is posting about this.
297
00:20:14,504 --> 00:20:16,340
Singer Lizzo and actor Danny Trejo
298
00:20:16,423 --> 00:20:18,842
also have shared their own Area 51 memes.
299
00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:20,302
Billie Eilish.
300
00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:22,930
Elon Musk.
301
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,390
The Jonas Brothers.
302
00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:32,272
Everyone who is something
is gonna raid Area 51.
303
00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:35,317
So now the meme has left
this small niche internet community,
304
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,735
and it's gone global.
305
00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:40,072
It's gone mainstream.
And now there's more intrigue,
306
00:20:40,155 --> 00:20:42,449
and of course,
there's more fuel on the fire.
307
00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:45,911
Within a month,
it was over a million people.
308
00:20:53,752 --> 00:20:58,882
That to me was, "We're viral-viral."
I was like, "Where does it go from here?"
309
00:21:04,513 --> 00:21:08,016
Oh, nice. Was that filmed at Area 51?
310
00:21:11,645 --> 00:21:12,479
Oh, shit.
311
00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:18,318
This has almost a million views
and an 81% rating.
312
00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:21,947
Wow! People like the alien sex.
313
00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:25,909
PornHub searches for Area 51 content
314
00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:30,539
went from zero to 160,000 searches
in four days.
315
00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:36,920
So the meme got a new mantra.
And that was, "Clap them alien cheeks."
316
00:21:38,797 --> 00:21:40,674
I'm trying to clap me some alien cheeks.
317
00:21:40,757 --> 00:21:41,883
You wanna clap my cheeks?
318
00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,094
I gotta get my hands on some alien cheeks.
319
00:21:45,095 --> 00:21:49,349
I wanna have sexual intercourse
with an alien.
320
00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:50,809
Ah, jeez.
321
00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:58,525
Anytime there's something
culturally relevant on the internet,
322
00:21:58,608 --> 00:22:00,235
there's gonna be people who wanna cash in.
323
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,113
You're guaranteed likes.
You're guaranteed shares.
324
00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:05,699
Aliens, money, yes, yes, yes!
325
00:22:05,782 --> 00:22:07,200
Like, cash it in.
326
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:10,912
I saw this as an opportunity.
327
00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:14,583
Okay, I can make my first YouTube video
here at Area 51.
328
00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:21,340
I decided to do a TikTok there to promote
my, like, acting career and my music.
329
00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,136
We knew it would be amazing content.
330
00:22:26,219 --> 00:22:29,306
-It's a hate-free show, God damn it!
-What?
331
00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:31,933
We are gonna dress
as sexy aliens.
332
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:34,978
We are going out to the desert,
and we're getting probed.
333
00:22:36,146 --> 00:22:39,107
Memes. Porn. Music.
334
00:22:39,649 --> 00:22:41,693
Video content. Celebrities.
335
00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:47,366
Somehow this post that I've created
has checked all the boxes.
336
00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,826
I've got lightning in a bottle.
337
00:22:50,911 --> 00:22:53,288
I felt like I was standing
on the doorstep of fame,
338
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,999
and all you really have to do
is ring the doorbell.
339
00:23:03,673 --> 00:23:05,801
Just digging through the Facebook page,
340
00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:08,887
there's a whole litany
of messages in here.
341
00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:12,182
And then I saw a message
that really stood out.
342
00:23:13,558 --> 00:23:17,896
Saying, "Why don't you throw
this little EDM party out in the desert
343
00:23:17,979 --> 00:23:19,022
right by Area 51?"
344
00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,234
Drag out a couple generators…
345
00:23:23,985 --> 00:23:27,948
…sound system, and you bring your friends.
346
00:23:30,033 --> 00:23:32,244
So I said, "Fuck yeah, let's do it."
347
00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:34,871
Fuck yeah. Let's do it!
348
00:23:36,706 --> 00:23:40,502
And this guy, he told me, "You wanna
hold a party for a million people?"
349
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,131
"There's only one man I know
that can handle an event that big."
350
00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:55,684
Disco Donnie presents the movie.
351
00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:00,188
Okay.
352
00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,359
My name is Disco Donnie.
353
00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:08,280
Some people call me
one of the godfathers of EDM.
354
00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:11,074
I've worked with everybody.
355
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:18,165
So I was at my place on the beach,
and I got this call.
356
00:24:21,918 --> 00:24:23,712
A promoter in Arkansas that I knew
357
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:28,758
was explaining that this
Area 51 post has gone viral.
358
00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:33,597
And he asked me if I wanted
to get involved and do a festival.
359
00:24:34,514 --> 00:24:37,058
I was like, "Sure. Uh, when is it?"
360
00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:39,895
And they said, "Well, in September."
361
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:43,815
I said, "Two months from now?
No way. That's crazy."
362
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:46,318
"Nobody in their right mind
would ever try to do that."
363
00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:50,155
Normally, we'd have
at least eight months to plan.
364
00:24:50,238 --> 00:24:52,824
And on this one, we only had eight weeks.
365
00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:57,078
And when I looked
to see where they were trying to do it,
366
00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:58,705
it was in the middle of the desert.
367
00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:02,918
I knew it was, like, impossible,
368
00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:06,254
but I also didn't wanna be left
on the sideline.
369
00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:08,173
This could be it.
370
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,636
I started reaching out to my contacts.
371
00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,890
I wanted to make sure
that all the infrastructure was in place.
372
00:25:17,766 --> 00:25:20,769
Just everything that
you would need for a show.
373
00:25:22,896 --> 00:25:25,857
They had nothing.
All they had was a Facebook page.
374
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,653
We only had two things going for us.
375
00:25:29,736 --> 00:25:32,656
Nobody knew who we were,
and nobody knew what we were planning.
376
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,282
So I told Matty,
377
00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:39,329
"Don't say anything about this in public
until we are sure we can make it happen."
378
00:25:42,749 --> 00:25:45,669
Everybody was trying
to reach out, wanted to know who he was.
379
00:25:45,752 --> 00:25:46,795
Whose page is this?
380
00:25:48,046 --> 00:25:51,258
It could be some sort of
300-pound man in his basement.
381
00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:52,884
It could be some hipster from Brooklyn
382
00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:55,595
who was writing some piece
for The New Yorker.
383
00:25:56,846 --> 00:25:58,974
We didn't know who this person was.
384
00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:02,185
Who was "I'm shitposting
because I'm in shambles"?
385
00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:07,649
I just didn't want him
to have negative attention.
386
00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:11,444
I was like, "Matthew,
you've gotta be very careful."
387
00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:14,239
"If it goes bad,
I mean, they know who you are."
388
00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:16,241
"You're the one they're gonna come after."
389
00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,703
"I really think
you should stay anonymous."
390
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,291
Then the next morning, I was at home.
391
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,460
And I look out the window,
and he's on the news,
392
00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:29,421
running down the street in a costume.
393
00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:31,506
Oh!
394
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,675
He's the 20-year-old college student
395
00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:36,219
behind a plan to storm Area 51.
396
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,139
And I was just like,
"Oh, my gosh, Matthew."
397
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,558
It's just meant to be funny.
I wanna do something cool.
398
00:26:41,641 --> 00:26:43,560
I was like, "Ugh, Jesus."
399
00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:45,854
Maybe music and art.
That's what I'm working on.
400
00:26:45,937 --> 00:26:49,399
I've got all these reporters asking me
to be on TV and give them an interview.
401
00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:53,987
And I figured, "When am I ever
gonna get this chance again? Fuck it."
402
00:26:57,824 --> 00:27:02,287
So now the meme
has yet another meme attached to it,
403
00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:03,747
and it's me.
404
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:09,294
Oh, my God, I love his outfit.
Yes, that's so sick.
405
00:27:09,377 --> 00:27:12,339
It was like, "Oh, yeah, that's the guy."
406
00:27:12,422 --> 00:27:13,632
"It's that guy."
407
00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:15,884
Some random dude
408
00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:19,804
who just thought of a funny concept
and wanted to post about it.
409
00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:22,849
I just created a joke
while I was playing video games, man,
410
00:27:22,932 --> 00:27:25,727
and it's taken off
to this, like, absolutely wild monster.
411
00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:29,898
Man, that guy's a legend. What a legend.
I wanna hang out with that guy.
412
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,274
Then it's like…
413
00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,359
…you're a household name.
414
00:27:32,442 --> 00:27:34,653
Matty Roberts revealing his identity.
415
00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:35,570
Matty Roberts.
416
00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:39,115
Matty Roberts.
417
00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:42,744
On my Facebook, all the people
I went to high school with were like,
418
00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:46,498
"Oh, wow, I was best friends
with the Area 51 guy."
419
00:27:47,582 --> 00:27:51,002
"Dude, I had three friends in high school.
You weren't one of 'em."
420
00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:55,674
Little kids would fangirl.
"Oh, my gosh. It's Matty."
421
00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:59,219
It's like, "This is our leader."
422
00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:03,973
He's like our Moses, you know.
He's our guide through the meme sea,
423
00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:07,143
who can dictate
what this event is gonna do.
424
00:28:07,727 --> 00:28:09,145
The whole thing was hysterical.
425
00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:13,483
But it was putting the cart
before the horse.
426
00:28:13,566 --> 00:28:15,610
Now you told people
you're really doing an event.
427
00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:19,948
That put the real pressure on
to actually do something.
428
00:28:20,031 --> 00:28:22,784
Clock's ticking,
and we don't even have a venue.
429
00:28:23,576 --> 00:28:27,831
Where do you host a million people
in the middle of the desert?
430
00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:37,632
It started out as just
from a pure stroke of imagination.
431
00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:41,469
Honestly, I was quite annoyed
because I thought to myself,
432
00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:44,139
"Do you realize what this could do?"
433
00:28:44,639 --> 00:28:46,391
Um, I don't think he cared.
434
00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:50,937
That punk kid.
That's who we were dealing with.
435
00:28:51,813 --> 00:28:53,648
You dress up for the cameras
and run around.
436
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,817
Okay, you're having fun with it. Great.
437
00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,278
But what it's bringing to my world,
438
00:28:59,112 --> 00:29:00,363
it was a lot.
439
00:29:02,198 --> 00:29:05,326
In Rachel, Nevada,
population just 56 people,
440
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,871
visitor numbers
are suddenly out of this world.
441
00:29:09,038 --> 00:29:12,208
All we can do is what we can do.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
442
00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:15,253
The news media started showing up.
443
00:29:15,336 --> 00:29:17,797
Then they didn't stop coming.
It was insane.
444
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:23,511
I'm thinking, if I ever get
my hands on this punk kid,
445
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:26,347
there's no way in hell
he'll ever step foot in my business.
446
00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:27,682
Screw you.
447
00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:41,321
I'm just hyped.
It's exciting. Something's happening.
448
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,825
Our plan was to just go out there,
449
00:29:45,909 --> 00:29:49,996
check out a few places
in proximity to Area 51.
450
00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:54,751
I'm leaving
my wife and family to go to Las Vegas
451
00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:58,755
to do this impossible festival
in the middle of the desert
452
00:29:58,838 --> 00:30:00,840
with people I've never even met.
453
00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:15,522
Donnie rented this dark red SRT8 Charger.
454
00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,650
Just immaculate.
455
00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:23,905
We started heading out towards Area 51.
456
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,660
I mean, this was
into the middle of nowhere.
457
00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:37,043
Once you're driving,
you realize Nevada is just a desert.
458
00:30:39,379 --> 00:30:41,339
It's like a scene from a fucking movie.
459
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:47,887
But I was thinking, like,
"Oh, shit, this is bad. This is all bad."
460
00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:55,019
Just imagine you're bringing
10,000 people out here.
461
00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:56,855
You're responsible for them.
462
00:30:59,983 --> 00:31:02,151
My advice was just do the show in Vegas.
463
00:31:03,736 --> 00:31:05,947
But I don't think Matty
was really listening.
464
00:31:07,991 --> 00:31:09,576
Area 51 is cool.
465
00:31:09,659 --> 00:31:14,831
Why would you come halfway here
when you can go all the way there?
466
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:21,045
Three hours, I'm starting
to think there's nothing out here.
467
00:31:23,214 --> 00:31:25,258
Then we come up, and here's the A'Le'Inn.
468
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:47,238
I was at my house.
469
00:31:47,947 --> 00:31:50,491
And my niece called me.
470
00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,662
"Aunt Connie, that kid who made that meme,
471
00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:58,541
he's standing in the bar and just asked
to talk to you." I said, "Oh, really?"
472
00:31:58,625 --> 00:32:00,418
"Oh, I will be right there."
473
00:32:07,383 --> 00:32:10,803
She comes out and looks at me.
474
00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:13,932
"Oh, you're that asshole
that started this?"
475
00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:17,226
I'm just like, "I'm so sorry."
476
00:32:18,353 --> 00:32:19,771
I bet you're not.
477
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:24,442
That was our introduction to Connie.
She should have killed us.
478
00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:27,695
And so she sits down.
479
00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:31,783
I was like, "What do you want?"
480
00:32:32,283 --> 00:32:34,619
We're looking for a place to do an event.
481
00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:37,121
"We can have this EDM festival."
482
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,332
"And we'll provide everything."
483
00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:42,001
"The stages
484
00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:45,129
and the entertainment,
security and medical."
485
00:32:45,838 --> 00:32:49,884
"The only things that we need you to have
is the land and the permit."
486
00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:55,223
I think she realized
it could be a good opportunity for her.
487
00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:57,892
If I'm gonna profit, why not?
488
00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:01,354
So I walked them around the property.
489
00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:13,199
Which was
just basically, like, a big plot of sand.
490
00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,746
This would be the worst place
in the whole world to do a festival.
491
00:33:20,498 --> 00:33:23,501
But once he saw that place, that was it.
492
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:27,630
In the desert right next to Area 51.
493
00:33:29,048 --> 00:33:31,259
It was just a light bulb moment.
494
00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:34,637
Matty was like, "Where do we sign?"
495
00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:42,687
Now I have this insane event
that I have to plan for.
496
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:45,356
I had no idea what I was doing.
497
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,649
No clue.
498
00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:51,821
We thought it'd be easy, just get a couple
of speakers, slap them in the sand,
499
00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:54,574
get some generators,
and we'd be good to go.
500
00:33:54,657 --> 00:33:58,286
They just had no idea, like,
all the stuff that needed to take place.
501
00:33:58,369 --> 00:33:59,787
Now we have six weeks.
502
00:34:10,381 --> 00:34:12,258
That was a really cool moment,
503
00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:16,262
but that was also
when all the problems started.
504
00:34:19,974 --> 00:34:21,809
We thought we should have a website.
505
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,731
We called it "Raid Rachel."
506
00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:32,653
Raid Rachel. Really?
You're gonna raid our properties?
507
00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:34,572
Now this is something alarming.
508
00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:36,949
We certainly don't wanna be raided.
509
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,999
Out of the blue, I'm getting
a call from the Little A'Le'Inn
510
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,918
that they are planning an event in Rachel.
511
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:49,962
I was completely taken off guard.
512
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:56,594
They already had the website up,
saying we are going to take over Rachel,
513
00:34:56,677 --> 00:34:59,639
and the locals are on board with this.
514
00:35:00,223 --> 00:35:01,182
We were not on board.
515
00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:04,435
How can Rachel,
516
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:09,607
a town of 25 to 50 people
on a good day, host a million people?
517
00:35:09,690 --> 00:35:11,234
How are we gonna deal with it?
518
00:35:11,317 --> 00:35:14,570
This was something
that could potentially destroy our town,
519
00:35:14,654 --> 00:35:17,073
and I was not going to let that happen.
520
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,537
Joerg was very vocal.
521
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,705
He was like, "You can't do that."
522
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,959
This is crazy. I'm in disbelief.
523
00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:32,964
He just told me, you know,
over his dead body is this gonna happen.
524
00:35:33,047 --> 00:35:34,757
Basically told me to fuck off.
525
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:39,595
And I knew I had a battle on my hands.
526
00:35:43,516 --> 00:35:45,351
We went out there. We saw this motel,
527
00:35:45,434 --> 00:35:49,230
and I didn't even consider the fact
that other people actually live there.
528
00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:54,944
Well, it was all of a sudden,
it was gonna be a festival.
529
00:35:55,027 --> 00:35:58,489
Some kind of late night rough-ass party.
530
00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:01,075
The A'Le'Inn was gonna sponsor it.
531
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,703
People in this tiny little town,
they live there for a reason.
532
00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:06,831
Now suddenly,
some dickhead from California
533
00:36:06,914 --> 00:36:08,708
is bringing a million people over there.
534
00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,295
They started having meetings.
535
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:15,256
At some point,
you gotta say, "Wait a minute.
536
00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:17,717
You know, we can't handle this."
537
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:22,096
I wrote letters
to whoever I could think of.
538
00:36:23,222 --> 00:36:24,557
They were hateful.
539
00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:28,519
It felt like I was in a war zone.
540
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:33,107
But nobody was gonna derail me
from running my business.
541
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,693
That was the moment I realized
542
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:39,739
this might not be as easy
as I thought it would be.
543
00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:45,203
I'm thinking, "We need
to find a way to stop this."
544
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:48,456
And we had one big hope.
545
00:36:56,380 --> 00:37:00,843
There's nothing funny about two million
people wanting to storm Area 51.
546
00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:08,351
The Nevada Test and Training Range
547
00:37:08,434 --> 00:37:11,187
is the most tactically important
Air Force base in the entire world.
548
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:15,316
This is the place
where we tested out the U-2,
549
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:19,028
the F-117 and the Stealth Bomber.
550
00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,574
The security forces, we call them
our defenders, guard the base.
551
00:37:24,450 --> 00:37:27,870
All of them are organized, trained
and equipped to accomplish that mission.
552
00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:29,872
They're very, very good at their job.
553
00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:33,417
They rose their right hand and would swear
554
00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:35,378
to protect the Constitution
against all enemies,
555
00:37:36,003 --> 00:37:37,421
foreign and domestic.
556
00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:39,590
If it takes use of force,
557
00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:42,176
they are authorized in order to do so.
558
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:49,392
So when I heard a bunch of
tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists
559
00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:52,270
were gonna Naruto run across the desert
and come see aliens,
560
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:56,232
my initial reaction was,
"You have got to be kidding."
561
00:37:56,315 --> 00:37:58,693
I've got enough going on,
and I don't need this.
562
00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:02,405
And we just don't have
the capacity or capability
563
00:38:02,488 --> 00:38:05,408
to go root out every single one
of those individuals
564
00:38:05,491 --> 00:38:07,493
to figure out who is a threat
and who's not.
565
00:38:09,203 --> 00:38:12,665
So I went to my boss, the United States
Air Force Warfare Center major general,
566
00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:16,460
informed him what the situation was
and we needed some additional troops.
567
00:38:16,544 --> 00:38:18,754
He ordered us
to keep this thing under control
568
00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:20,256
and stop it from escalating.
569
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:23,259
We decided to go
very aggressive against it.
570
00:38:23,342 --> 00:38:25,761
Get a message out there
to let folks know it's not a good idea.
571
00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:31,684
Our number one hope, our goal in life
was just please don't let this happen.
572
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,731
An Air Force spokesperson
told media outlets
573
00:38:36,814 --> 00:38:39,692
that the US Air Force is aware
of the Facebook event.
574
00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:41,986
Any attempt to illegally access military…
575
00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:45,906
…military installations
or military training areas is dangerous.
576
00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,200
The US Air Force always stands ready
577
00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,786
to protect America and its assets.
578
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:53,372
Was pretty much saying,
"If you rock up and try and storm that,
579
00:38:53,456 --> 00:38:54,749
we're probably gonna shoot you."
580
00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:58,210
They've warned people
not to try to enter the air base.
581
00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:10,181
-There are gun-toting guards…
-Yeah.
582
00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:14,101
-…who are authorized to use deadly force.
-If you try to storm that.
583
00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:15,895
You will be turned into people jelly.
584
00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:18,022
That's gonna be a civil war
at that point, right?
585
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:26,530
-They shot people before.
-If your arms aren't up.
586
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:28,616
The government is not joking.
587
00:39:28,699 --> 00:39:32,703
That's kind of when really
the tide changed on this whole thing.
588
00:39:33,287 --> 00:39:36,791
Because it's gone
from just being a dipshit on the internet
589
00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:39,293
to now I've got real people
590
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:43,172
coming to a real place
that can get really hurt.
591
00:39:43,714 --> 00:39:46,217
How the fuck did it come to this?
592
00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:53,182
When I saw the Air Force's response,
593
00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:54,725
I thought, "Oh, shit."
594
00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:56,143
The gravity of it hit me.
595
00:39:56,227 --> 00:40:00,564
They clearly wanted people
to know that we will protect our assets,
596
00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:01,982
and we're not to be fucked with.
597
00:40:07,655 --> 00:40:09,573
I am an accidental filmmaker.
598
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:13,285
I started studying this UFO topic
because, like everybody else,
599
00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:16,414
I was curious if it was true.
600
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,419
I had no experience, no qualifications.
601
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:24,713
I just started
making documentaries about UFOs,
602
00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:27,508
which took me deeper into the controversy.
603
00:40:29,468 --> 00:40:32,721
I had no idea that going on
The Joe Rogan Podcast
604
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,141
was gonna throw gasoline on the fire.
605
00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:37,435
There's something. There are craft.
606
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:39,478
They're here.
They're not ours. They're here.
607
00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:41,188
What is that about?
608
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,859
So I kind of felt
this sense of responsibility.
609
00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:47,611
If you storm a military base,
you get fucking shot.
610
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,656
We'd just make a memorial for stupidity.
611
00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:53,284
We're about
to experience natural selection.
612
00:40:53,367 --> 00:40:56,412
I know what can happen
when government gets involved
613
00:40:56,495 --> 00:40:58,789
on things about Area 51. It's not good.
614
00:41:00,624 --> 00:41:03,335
So I just sent a message
on social media just saying,
615
00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:06,464
"Hey, Matty. Wanna talk?
Here's my number."
616
00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:10,050
I've got a million messages,
but this message
617
00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:13,304
is sent by a name
I've recognized from the podcast.
618
00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:17,475
And boom, I get a text right back.
619
00:41:18,434 --> 00:41:20,269
We started chitchatting back and forth.
620
00:41:21,896 --> 00:41:23,898
I talked with Matty.
621
00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:26,025
I said, "I know the UFO world."
622
00:41:26,108 --> 00:41:28,486
"There's a lot of insanity and craziness."
623
00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:30,738
I was worried
624
00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:34,700
that what Matty was saying
would spark idiots
625
00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:38,287
to go up to the gate and try to sneak in.
626
00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:40,372
I wouldn't wanna be responsible
627
00:41:40,456 --> 00:41:42,291
for all those people
coming out to the desert.
628
00:41:44,293 --> 00:41:48,797
I tell him the messages I was getting
had started to get a bit fucked up.
629
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,601
You've got people threatening
to kill other people.
630
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:04,104
You've got people threatening
to kill the guards at the base.
631
00:42:05,272 --> 00:42:07,566
You've got people threatening to kill me.
632
00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:16,575
And that kind of
freaked me out a little bit.
633
00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:19,411
If you're getting that
and you're not used to that,
634
00:42:19,495 --> 00:42:21,664
that shit is scary, and it's devastating.
635
00:42:24,583 --> 00:42:27,127
One day,
I was working the shift at the bar.
636
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:29,129
The phone rang.
637
00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:36,387
And a gentleman told me he had me
in his sights, meaning crosshairs.
638
00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:41,475
And that my blood
was gonna look really good
639
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:43,978
on the color of shirt
that I was wearing that day.
640
00:42:44,895 --> 00:42:48,065
The only way that anybody could see
what I was wearing
641
00:42:48,148 --> 00:42:51,026
was looking through the window
at the end of the bar.
642
00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:55,781
It was terrifying.
643
00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:01,787
Connie called us and said,
"Hey, uh, there's been some threats."
644
00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,749
We did our best to investigate those.
645
00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,043
We didn't know
where the threats could be coming from.
646
00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:12,381
Were they locals?
Were they foreigners? We had no idea.
647
00:43:13,966 --> 00:43:15,384
Around the same time, I got a call.
648
00:43:19,179 --> 00:43:20,931
It was about a couple of people,
649
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:24,560
um, prowling around the Area 51 bus.
650
00:43:25,769 --> 00:43:29,940
The people who take that bus are
just regular folks who work at the base.
651
00:43:30,024 --> 00:43:34,278
I thought, "Oh, my God, someone probably
thinks they know secrets about Area 51."
652
00:43:35,529 --> 00:43:37,072
So we sent a patrol car.
653
00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:42,661
There are two YouTubers.
654
00:43:42,745 --> 00:43:45,581
And they were livestreaming
the Area 51 bus,
655
00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:47,166
trying to peek in the windows.
656
00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:51,629
The officer asked 'em to stop filming him.
657
00:43:51,712 --> 00:43:55,132
You know, people became upset
that were watching the livestream.
658
00:43:57,384 --> 00:44:01,639
And they basically give out
our phone numbers.
659
00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:11,815
People started threatening me,
started threatening the department.
660
00:44:11,899 --> 00:44:16,070
And so in a really short period of time,
it got out of hand,
661
00:44:16,153 --> 00:44:17,613
and it got out of hand in a hurry.
662
00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:28,540
They crashed our phone systems.
663
00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,252
And that was a small incident.
664
00:44:33,879 --> 00:44:36,715
When we looked
at what just those two people could do
665
00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:39,677
with their small audience
and their livestream…
666
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,097
Wow. What could two million people do?
667
00:44:45,182 --> 00:44:48,310
This is something we can't handle.
We need help.
668
00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:52,314
At that point, the county
actually declared a state of emergency.
669
00:44:52,898 --> 00:44:55,442
Lincoln County officials,
they are looking to declare a state of…
670
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:59,446
…emergency declaration
because of the Storm Area 51 event.
671
00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:01,281
County leaders, the sheriff's department…
672
00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:03,450
...fearing a public safety nightmare.
673
00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:04,660
It's, like, very concerning.
674
00:45:04,743 --> 00:45:07,955
When you think of a state of emergency
you think of, like, a pandemic or a fire.
675
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:13,085
You know, it means that they're planning
for something bad to happen.
676
00:45:13,836 --> 00:45:15,713
It changed the whole face of everything.
677
00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:18,215
This became not a Lincoln County thing.
678
00:45:18,298 --> 00:45:20,634
This became a government situation.
679
00:45:34,273 --> 00:45:36,024
Matthew was at his friend's house.
680
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,528
I was in the bedroom putting my makeup on.
681
00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:41,572
I'm totally not dressed.
682
00:45:41,655 --> 00:45:44,408
I'm in, like, jammies, no shoes on.
683
00:45:47,745 --> 00:45:49,788
Then there was a knock at the door.
684
00:45:56,420 --> 00:45:58,881
Is this the residence of Matthew Roberts?
685
00:46:03,260 --> 00:46:06,346
I text, uh, Matthew and said,
"You need to come home."
686
00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:07,848
"The FBI's here."
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